IEA Past Events

A panel discussion featuring: Mark Field, Conservative MP for Cities of London & Westminster; Lord Stevenson of Balmacara, Shadow Minister for Higher Education; Prof Roland Kaye, Dean of BPP University College Business School; Richard Gillingwater CBE, Dean of Cass Business School; Prof J R Shackleton, University of Buckingham. The argument about the profit motive in (more…)

Speaker: Andrew Haldane, Executive Director, Financial Stability, Bank of England Commentator: Philip Booth, Editorial and Programme Director, IEA Chair: Jon Stern, Senior Visiting Fellow, City University London The government is proposing major changes in the regulation of financial services following the banking crisis. This lecture will discuss how the financial system can best be regulated, (more…)

Can education be for profit and still be driven by a humanitarian vision? James Tooley demonstrates it can. Nick Clegg recently announced ‘yes to greater diversity; yes to more choice for parents; but no to running schools for profit’. Clegg is missing a trick, suggests James Tooley.  For 125 years SABIS has been running schools in (more…)

Speaker: Steffen Huck, Professor of Economics, University College London Commentator: Amelia Fletcher, Chief Economist, OFT Chair: Xeni Dassiou, Director, Centre for Competition & Regulatory Policy, City University London Will behavioural economics significantly impact regulatory and competition policy? This lecture will examine what biases in consumer behaviour mean for competition and market outcomes, and how behavioural (more…)

Speaker: Sonia Brown, Senior Director of Markets and Economics, Ofwat Chair and Commentator: Jon Stern, Senior Visiting Fellow, City University London This lecture will discuss proposals for competition in the Water for Life White Paper, and how Ofwat plans to move competition in the water industry forward. It will discuss some benefits of competition, and (more…)

IEA and Free Enterprise Group – Conservative Party Conference event – Tuesday 9 October 2012, 7.30pm – 9pm Hyatt Hotel, Sonata (drinks will be served). A manifesto fit for 2015 – 15 ideas to transform Britain Emerging economies are now rising up as giants, while the shadow of economic crisis is still hovering over the UK. (more…)

Conservative Party Conference event – Sunday 7 October 2012 – 7.30pm – 9pm Hall 8A, The ICC, Birmingham (drinks will be served). Strugglers and strivers: An agenda that will attract As the cost of living becomes an increasingly important issue for people, this session will examine how supply-side reform holds the key to bringing down (more…)

Speaker: David Starkie, Senior Associate, Case Associates Chair and Commentator: To be confirmed Recent discussions around Heathrow, Boris Island and HS2 have highlighted the controversy around making investment decisions in transportation. This lecture will examine the move to centrally planned infrastructure, and some proposals for adding capacity. The Beesley Lectures are a series of eight (more…)

A private working lunch with Nigel Farage. The topic for discussion is the Euro. Nigel is MEP for the South East region and is the leader of the parliamentary party in the EU parliament. The central aim of the party is the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union and to regain control of this nation’s governance (more…)

Speaker: Tommaso Valletti, Professor of Economics, Imperial College London Chair and Commentator: Lord David Currie, Former Chairman, Ofcom Technology is progressing rapidly, leaving regulation in media to catch up. This lecture will cover how the media landscape is changing, examine the convergence implications for regulating broadcasting, provide an overview of spectrum policies and give some (more…)